48 Action research is currently popular due to its empowering effects on teachers and principals and because school staffs determine the research focus and are the primary beneficiaries of the findings.49 Recently, Wideman (2002) has ...
Action research, explored in this book, is a seven-step process for improving teaching and learning in classrooms at all levels.
How America's Schools Can Get Better at Getting Better Anthony S. Bryk, Louis M. Gomez, Alicia Grunow, Paul G. LeMahieu ... 1999); M. Suzanne Donovan and James W. Pellegrino, eds., “Learning and Instruction: A SERP Research Agenda” ...
Everett M. Rogers, Diffusion of Innovations (New York: The Free Press, 1962). 17. The term early majority draws directly from Rogers's theory of innovation diffusion (see Rogers, Diffusion of Innovations). While a true majority has not ...
Joyce , B. R. , Calhoun , E. F. and Hopkins , D. ( 1999 ) The New Structure of School Improvement , Buckingham : Open University Press . Kemmis , S. ( 1982 ) * Action research in retrospect and prospect in Deakin University ' ...
-This text presents a step-by-step approach to problem diagnosis and school improvement. --
... and why ∗From an article I co-authored with colleagues Susan Sullivan and Vivian Shulman (2002), Good intentions, questionable results: Implications for the professional development of teachers, Education and Urban Society, ...
This book explores an approach to school improvement that merges the traditions of educational effectiveness research and school improvement efforts.
With this practical guide, K-12 educators will discover how to target their school's specific needs with an immediate course of action to improve and measure student achievement.
This is the first book to synthesize theoretical, empirical, and practice-based literature in order to provide a comprehensive look at what is known about teacher leadership and what works to support it.
This book shows school leaders how they can infuse their daily practice with an examination of the actions they take to improve their schools.